Download or read book The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn written by Ralph Melnick and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Ludwig Lewisohn’s life until 1934, an imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century. An imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, Ludwig Lewisohn (1882-1955) struggled with feelings of alienation in Christian America that were gradually resolved by his developing Jewish identity, a process reflected in hundreds of works of fiction, literary analysis, and social criticism. Born in Berlin, Lewisohn moved with his family in 1890 to South Carolina. Identified by others as a Jew, he remained an outsider throughout his youth. Lewisohn became a notable scholar and translator of German and French literature, teaching at Wisconsin and Ohio State. Following his mother's death in 1914, he began to explore the Jewish life he had rejected, and by 1920 became a Zionist committed to fighting assimilation. Accusatory and inflammatory, his memoir Up Stream (1922) struck at the very heart of American culture and society, and caused great controversy and lasting enmity. As strong emotional influences, the women in Lewisohn's life—his mother and four wives—helped to frame his life and work. Believing himself liberated by the woman he declared his "spiritual wife" while legally married to another, he proclaimed the artist's right to freedom in The Creative Life (1924), abandoned his editorship at The Nation, and fled to Europe. Lewisohn's fictionalized account of his failed marriage, The Case of Mr. Crump (1926), once again attacked the empty morality of this world and won Sigmund Freud's praise as the greatest psychological novel of the century. A creator of one of Paris's leading salons, Lewisohn ended his leisurely writer's life in 1934 to awaken America to the growing Nazi threat. Poised to face the unfinished marital battle at home, but anxious to engage in the coming struggle for Jewish survival and the future of Western civilization, he set sail, unsure of what lay ahead.
Download or read book The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn This dark and desparate age written by Ralph Melnick and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn Volume II written by Ralph Melnick and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, Ludwig Lewisohn (1882–1955) struggled with feelings of alienation in Christian America that were gradually resolved by his developing Jewish identity, a process reflected in hundreds of works of fiction, literary analysis, and social criticism. This second volume portrays Lewisohn's last decades as an outspoken opponent of Nazi Germany, a leading promoter of Jewish resettlement in Palestine, a member of Brandeis University's first faculty, and one of the earliest voices advocating Jewish renewal in America. Despite his activism, Lewisohn was no longer welcome in Zionist circles by 1948 as a result of his "unacceptable" opinions concerning British intransigence, organizational politics, and, particularly, Jewish cultural and religious decline. However, the invitation to join the newly established Brandeis University as its only full professor provided him with the opportunity he sought to contribute to the reshaping of American Jewry. Lewisohn's efforts would later bear fruit in the Jewish renewal movement of the next generation.
Download or read book Ludwig Lewisohn Papers written by Ludwig Lewisohn and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence, poems, and printed material documenting the literary career of author Ludwig Lewisohn. Volume of unpublished poems, 1903-1905, includes two dedications to "you whose name I dare not speak, but to whom these poems of right belong," and to George Sylvester Viereck; typescript copy, 1922, of Lewisohn's article, "South Carolina: A Lingering Fragrance," originally published in The Nation; and letters, 1929-1946, re Lewisohn's thoughts and criticism on his own writing and the importance of his Jewish heritage. Places represented include Brooklyn, N.Y.; Santa Fe, N.M.; Paris and Nice, France.
Download or read book Ludwig Lewisohn written by Adolph Gillis and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1933 edition.
Download or read book Ludwig Lewisohn The Artist and His Message written by Adolph Gillis and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn written by Ralph Melnick and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewisohn's efforts would later bear fruit in the Jewish renewal movement of the next generation.
Download or read book The Acculturation of Ludwig Lewisohn written by David Felix Singer and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
